Comments on: Connected Teaching

By: Martha Bless

Martha Bless — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:01:41 +0000

Ditto!! This is making the assumption that teachers want to learn. In my PD experience with teachers, there are many who remain curious, inquisitive and interested in learning all they can about teaching and learning — thank god for these folks. Sadly, there is a whole pool of educators out there who have no interest in being professionally developed, never mind developing themselves! They get in, get tenured, and get lazy. I have actually had teachers (TEACHERS!!) say to me, “I don’t really read books.” Sigh…. as a Literacy Specialist and Education Consultant (AKA PD Provider) one of my biggest challenges is motivating teachers to engage in professional learning. We talk constantly about the problem of student engagement with learning. Maybe we first need to solve the problem of teacher engagement in professional learning.

By: Dareen

Dareen — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:14:14 +0000

The idea of Connected Teaching is very interesting and really influences today’s learning. It is clearly related to our course, directly helping us in understanding the importance of Online Team Learning. As educators we always need to exchange expertise and online learning is a strong and effective method of achieving best qualities of learning and education. Our role in Online Teaching is very important and reaches more audience, affecting the whole learning community.

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By: tom johnston

tom johnston — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:18:18 +0000

It’s really about knowing people (and ourselves). After watching Will Richardson for the day I was given a model of what it might look like to be in a web2.0 world. My interests are creative writing, NLP, new age spirituality, Ken Wilber and cryptic crosswords. Now I can go online and be a participant in some of these things I find interesting. ( and I will direct that learning toward the classroom).

Before I saw Will speak I was skeptical of online chat and social networking- I didn’t SEE the value. That doesn’t mean I’m not a lifelong learner. I watched the era of chat where people would chat to say absolutely nothing- lots of that still there. Now I know how to begin to direct myself online to things that matter. But if a teacher wants to go home after Will’s workshop and dust off their stamp collection, that’s ok too. They are who they are, and even if they can’t, or have no passion to, go online and discover the value of online stamp collecting blogs(?) they are still human and still have value in a classroom. And they will be retiring soon, so that some new web 2.0 teachers can begin a new career and new era in teaching and learning. The boards, I say, will be the real problem for instituting change.

By: Bud Hunt

Bud Hunt — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:30:25 +0000

I’m with Dan. The Swiss Army Knife would be helpful to describe. Again. (I know you’ve done this before – but how are you learning lately? What’s your process look like?) It’d probably be good for lots of folks, Dan included, to do this.

Even though, I suspect, we’re doing it in bits and pieces all over the web. What would a day of “this is how I’m learning lately” posts look like?

By: Gerald Aungst

Gerald Aungst — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:14:10 +0000

Will: …It also suggests pretty strongly that teachers own their own learning first, that they see themselves as learners in the classroom alongside of their students. Nothing earth-shatteringly new there….

I agree with you completely, but I am growing increasingly frustrated with the not-so-small minority of teachers who don’t get that they cannot ever stop learning, and that their own learning is as important as students’ learning.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:18:33 +0000

Will: I’ve started saying that the only workshop we should offer our teachers is one titled something like “How to Learn Online,” one that gives teachers some context and some strategy for directing their own learning but places the expectation for DIYPD squarely on their shoulders.

I can get with this. Nine tenths of my professional development work, talking to teachers about converting their own learning into mathematical challenges for their students, is useless if the teachers aren’t learning much anymore.

I won’t ask you to for an outline of that workshop but I am curious which technologies you’d call “indispensable?” What does your Swiss Army knife look like?